Remember Hoo Ha India, Aya India ?, where Pepsi made an astonishing ad campaign to cheer up Indian Team in the current ICC Champions Trophy. Guess what ? India couldn’t even make it to semi-final. More surprisingly, none of the south east Asian teams could make it to semi-final either. [ India, Pakistan & Srilanka] [...]
I like this jingle. Really make you patriot. Have you ever thought why you were seeing this ads so many times on TV ? Thats the marketing mind of Pepsi(the drinks company) to deviate people’s thoughts from recent cola controversy. Unlike Coca cola, Pepsi decided not to remind people again and again about the controversy [...]
Finally the broadband plan upgraded and now we are on 1Mbps. If you don’t know what 1Mbps is check this maths : 1024 kilo bits / sec = 128 Kilo Bytes / Sec This means every 10 seconds you can get 1.25 MB. Is that high speed ? No, but being in this part of [...]
For keyword analysis we have to check thousands of keyphrases and it is a boring job to find and delete the duplicate entries. To make life easier I decided to program a small utility that can remove duplicate entires. The important things I wanted to see in the utility was : 1. File driven, so [...]
For this Onam, I decided to buy a dish tv India package. As usual I wanted to explore things without any help. Hence decided to install it myself, thinking I will get help from internet if needed. Bought the STB (set top box), dish & viewing card (all this comes as a single package) and [...]
Wishing all keralites around the world : For those people who don’t know what onam is, please check out the following wikipedia entry. Onam – annual harvest festival Happy onam folks!
Finally me too bought one 19″ LCD. Sony 19″ LCD. Looks like this monitor is going in to be part of my home entertainment PC. ( Which simultaneously is a late night workstation ) Life rocks!
Looks like my first computer should be terminated before it “dies”. This system was bought on 9/11/01 ( yep, you are right same day WTC attack happened ) and now nearing its 5th birthday. Currently serving as 4th machine in our office. This PC started showing his age by not booting up often. Even after [...]
Yes, ants attacking my computers! You won’t believe this, but its the truth. Summer heat forced “Ants” to think of a place cool and cozy, and they found a nice place in my computer chasis. They even penetrated the SATA PCB, fortunately surrendered before the real moving parts. Otherwise same thing would have happend as [...]
I remember this term from somewhere :”Time is money”. I think i got it from some book. Anyway the particular time has come to my life where ideas are getting very quickly and now time is very much limited. Most of these ideas can be successfull businesses / websites if done properly. Currently I do [...]